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• Re: Rear closet permanent removal Was: Rear closet temporary removal
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:29:05 -0700
  ...The main compartment serves for bedding > > mainly, and then for storage of items during camping. We use sleeping > > bags rather than home style bedding...
• Re: bathtubs
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:52 -0700
  ...Will the bed >> hold that? >> >> Mike >> Still from somewhere >> maybe >> >> On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Loren Busch wrote: >> >>> RE: The Song...
• FS: Westy Interior, complete, incl. propane tank, extra fridge
  Historical mailing list - Fitz-Randolph, Douglas
  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:47:17 -0400
  ...Also have 4 genuine hubcaps in excellent shape, $80, and German high-lift bed hinges to raise the camper bed an additional 4" higher...
• Fwd: pull a part
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:36:18 -0700
  ...you now anyone that needs cabinet doors or the rear bed, the top bed is also there, 1/3 slider windows also are in...
• Vanagon Weekender Seating- FS
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:08:53 EST
  ...This includes all of the interior panels, the folding rear bed/seat, rear cushion (needs a cover), middle seat that folds forward (also good...
• Re: Good news and bad news Trip report- short
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:00:54 -0400
  My wife has been sick on occasion and sleeps in the rear bed while the van is moving, it is possible to put the...
• Re: Friday Liberties
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:28:36 +1000
  ...Tromper <tromper@ATTBI.COM> >Heck you could find a way to retro in that cool dropping bed from >the "Eurovan" pickups, someone posted a...
• FS: grey vanagon seats including rear folding bed and cushion
  Historical mailing list - Dave L
  Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:00:11 -0400
  ...Rear seat is the full-width folding bed, including the cushion that goes over the engine cover. I'll sell them as a package...
• Re: [T2] safety net for my daugter to sleep upstair wanted
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:58:04 -0500
  ...Or install a typical bedrail: http://www.epinions.com/content_49842065028 If your child can defy gravity then the net is completely unnecessary. Complying...
• Re: Re; Undercoating, and Bed Liner etc.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:08:12 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Terry Kay wrote: > Malcom, > > I used the urethane bed liner on the bottom of my Van in 90 degree...
• Re: OMG...non shredded shreddy tan corduroy!!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:11:18 -0600
  ...The bed -- it appears that the bed is narrower in the rear than in the > portion consisting of the rear seat. Or am I...
• Re: Even More Eurovan Thoughts
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:56:51 EDT
  ...My first > question on that is does the GLS have a fold down rear seat? I realize it's > not a bed like the...
• Re: new foam for upper bed
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 5 Jun 2018 05:04:01 -0700
  ...new foam for upper bed > Thinking of replacing the foam in my 1990 Westy's upper mattress. Would prefer something non-toxic and super...
• Re: Are your kids grown?
  Historical mailing list - Blaine Bachman
  Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:49:45 EDT
  ...BTW, I have a good canvas for the 'loaf stretcher bed, but no poles - anyone interested, or should I head to ebay? -Blaine
• Re: '90 Vanagon Jump Seats and Rear Bench/Bed
  Historical mailing list - ed
  Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:56:16 -0500
  ...I'm also auctioning, in a separate auction, the Rear Bench/Bed including > the Rear Deck Mattress, belts, and hardware: > > http://cgi.ebay.com...
• Re: rear seat conversion???
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:50 EDT
  ...I don't know if that's a "weekender seat" but it looks like it could be a fairly comfortable bed sort of thing...
• Re: pop out on westy
  Historical mailing list - John C.
  Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:27:29 EDT
  ...It would definately give you some more floor space in your camper; you could make the bottom bed wider too. My camper doesn't...
• Re: '86 Vanagon West Camper
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:25:36 -0700
  ...It does stick out when stowed but fits under the bed when the bed is down and pulls all the way out for easy...
• Re: Friday: $90K Syncro Adventurewagen
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:05:31 -0800
  ...AW w/V8 and 2.1L WBX BOTH Did you also note the "Pop-Up roof with a 2-person bed"!! Fantastic for an...
• Re: What to lube on wipers when dash is off?
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:40:40 -0500
  Haven't the first clue, but I'd probably eschew any product intended to be used in a bedroom. Geo/ATL
• Re: Camping in the Rain/mildew
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 12 Apr 1995 07:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
  I've found that if you remove the cushions from the pop-top bed it promotes air circulation and reduces moisture problems up there...
• Re: Westy/Vanagon Paranoia Silver Boxer
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 23 May 2001 20:45:45 -0600
  ...He slept in the Lincoln Bedroom??? :) John
• Westy armrest
  Historical mailing list - Frank Brancolino
  Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:46:49 EDT
  Hello does anyone know how to remove the armrest at the fold out bed ? I can't figure it out I want to recover...
• Re: Rubber Bras
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Thu, 31 May 2001 17:56:10 -0500
  ...As a > matter of fact, in a rubbing test between textured urea and textured > urethane as each would be in a truck bed application...
• Re: how was this poptop added?
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn Ratjen
  Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:25:10 -0800
  ...a bed fits in there, mine does. I added a Westfalia top later, made a wooden frame around the center cutout, a bed from...
• WTB: Any hardtop VANAGON with foldable bed.
  Historical mailing list - Jean-Woo Kim
  Sun, 6 Apr 2014 23:18:52 -0700
  ...If anyone has a hardtop VANAGON with a folding bed/rear seat to unload, I would like to hear about it please. He is...
• Synchro Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:30:07 -0800 (PST)
  ...He's new to the net, so be gentle! Thanks! Thom '56 kombi, w/westy bed, and soon a fridge(?) -- > Nuke unborn gay whales...
• Newer model Wolfsburg interior into an '84?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Root
  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:21:40 EST
  ...My van does not have the rear fold down bed and has the two person middle seat/rails. What am I getting myself into...
• Re: Weekender seat/bed into my '81--How do you install it?
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:17:43 -0400
  ...Nichols wrote: > Recently acquired a seat/bed rear seat from a 89 Carat and I wish to > install it in my '81 7 passenger...
• Orcas/Lopez Ferry Sighting
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:56:43 -0800
  Saw a brick colored air-cooled with clever bedliner rocker panel coverup. We were the tan WBX parked next to you on the outbound...
• Wanted - Rear AC for 85 Westy.
  Historical mailing list - LANE WALDNER
  Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:38:17 -0800
  Does anyone know where I can locate a rear AC unit for an 85 Westy? The unit goes above the back bed in the...
• Vanagons Seats
  Historical mailing list - Sorin Bejenaru
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:05:47 -0400
  ...Front seats $50 each Middle bench $50 Rear bench that becomes a bed $50 Sorin (650) 400-7810
• Re: Road trip from Florida to Pennsylvania
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:29:15 -0500
  ...If anyone has or knows of a place to find a rear bed/bench, rock and roll bed, z bed or whatever, please do...
• On the subject of seats...
  Historical mailing list - Douglas Demarest
  Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:40:54 EST
  ...Basically I wanted a weekender or a wolfsburg or whatever it is with the bed, table, rear seat, curtains and what I got was...
• FS: Blue rear bench from 86-91 (not bed/bench) $20
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:31:13 EST
  ...This bench does fold down but it is not the kind that folds into a bed. Gray velour upholstery/gray carpeted back is good...
• Re: Ebay Deutchland
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:39:44 -0600
  ...or just someone who cut the bed off his pickup and can prop it up with a pipe. :( joel
• Re: 1990 Carat interior FOR SALE
  Historical mailing list - Richard Williams
  Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:01:07 -0700
  ...The two jump seats, the table and support hardware, the rear windshield washer and wiper, rear day-bed / seat, seat-belts, molded side panels...
• Re: re. double door vanagon pics..(sliding doors on both sides)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:57:19 EDT
  ...a lift up lid next to > the rock n roll bed (comfy bed but I've never seen it jive). > Stew > > > stew..where are...
• Re: camper closet removal?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:22:24 -0500
  ...our age) the ability to move around a bit more in bed becomes more important. Heh, I remember when zipping two sleeping bags together...
• Re: Westy's vs Other Configurations for Camping
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:41:25 -0700
  ...Gives me lots more flexibility > - and I hate being cramped for space in the bed area - and the Carat has > a full bed with...
• Re: Ladies and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:52:36 -0700
  Put it this way - 'Smart girls see the comfort and advantages of a vanagon, particularly one with any sort of bed in it." Comfort...
• Re: The cross bar under the rear bench seat GL
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 4 Jul 2005 07:05:22 -0500
  ...It's a little tricky pulling out the bed and getting it back in, but a small price to pay for the sound improvement...
• Re: Z-Bed
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:35:50 -0700
  ...I happen to be intersted in this Z-Bed myself. But I had an immediate loss of interest when the LOCATION of said item...
• Re: Interior Swap GL to Weekender
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 26 May 1999 12:24:37 -0400
  I install a weekender bed, in my GL. Everything was a bolt in except the pins that support the seat back. These pins are...
• Re: Traveller in distress (near Chicago) - UPDATE TWO
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:49:52 -0700
  ...Third, the interior design with the main storage closet blocked when the bed was down. (I normally leave the bed down when camped). And...
• Re: the high+pop-top
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:55:43 -0500
  ...you can not sit up in bed, an elevating high top would resolve both daytime standing requirements, and night time space, allowing the kids...
• bed problems
  Historical mailing list - Tim Leek
  Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:38:38 -0400
  The bed in my 87 Vanagon GL (not a pop-top) is hard to unfold and seems to be getting worse. I have to...
• Ceiling Fan for Westys
  Historical mailing list - wognacious
  Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:17:27 -0700
  ...It attaches to the metal beam that supports the upper bed so it hangs right above your head when lying in the lower bed...
• Re: Sure Flow faucet problem
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:27:26 -0400
  On 8/16/2013 12:20 PM, Jim Felder wrote: > You guys ever hear of plumber's putty? ...or marine/RV bedding compound, or...
• Re: Westy done in red truck bed liner
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 4 May 2015 08:14:15 -0300
  Meh .. On 03-May-2015, at 22:50, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > Speaks for itself: > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1784217...
• Looking to Buy
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Mon, 11 Sep 2000 00:30:45 -0500
  I am looking for the fold out bed found in Westy Weekenders and Wolfsburgs. Preferably in Blue. Also, the table found in these models...
• Re: Road trip from Florida to Pennsylvania
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:45:00 -0500
  ...Our hope is to > eventually find a rear bed bench and build some custom cabinets or find > some westfalia cabinets. > > If anyone has or...
• Re: Extra long, or Vanalong
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Aug 96 12:27:11 +0200
  ...what they appeared to do was take a single cab pickup >and cut the bed off, extend it, and weld a box onto the...
• Re: Pop top Conversions
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Gates
  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:39:48 -0700
  I have just built the bed on the curved roof. This was after the pop top was installed on my Syncro GL. I used...
• Does anyone have a pic of a upper bunk?
  Historical mailing list - james peters
  Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:10:11 PDT
  This may sound odd...,but I have never seen a picture of an upper bunk bed in a Westy. I hear some of you...
• REPOST 86 GL for sale (w/corrections)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Winesette
  Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:58:18 -0700
  ...All new CV joints, tires are in great shape.The interior is in great shape the rear seat folds down to bed (I still...
• Re: 87 syncro weekender for sale -- needs engine work
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:04:14 -0500
  ...Weekenders have folding beds, fold-out tables and rear facing seats. Wolfsburg-edition campers have folding beds, fould-out tables, a rear facing seat...
• Re: tool identification request
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:31:34 -0500
  This tool looks like a bed or bearing scraper to me. By this I mean for the hand scraping of a machine tool bed...
• Re: the INCORRECT USAGE of the term "Z-BED" ...
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:09:11 -0400
  I bought an '86 Weekender with a Z-Bed and converted it to a Westphalia! g,d&r! ;) Edward And in the spirit of...
• Re: Memory Foam for Rear Mattress
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:22:05 -0600
  ...When ready to make >> up the >> bed the seat comes down and a simple pull on the topper flops it >> right into >> place. >> And...